MOSCOW, Jan 17 Moscow in response to unfriendly EU actions expanded the stop list of representatives of European organizations and member countries of the Union, which are prohibited from entering Russia, the Foreign Ministry said. Kyiv, weapons and military equipment, as well as citizens «seen in systematic public anti-Russian rhetoric.»
«The European Union continues its attempts to put pressure on Russia through unilateral restrictive measures. On December 16, 2022, the EU countries adopted the ninth package of sanctions. We consider such actions of the EU illegitimate, undermining the international legal prerogatives of the UN Security Council,» the press release of the ministry says. we approved a resolution recognizing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism. The Foreign Ministry called this step another demonstration of the double standards of «the Western political community, which since 2014 turned a blind eye to the killings of residents of Donbass by the Kyiv security forces.»
The aforementioned ninth package of EU sanctions against Russia was approved in December. Among the measures are restrictions against banks, a partial ban on investments in the Russian mining industry, an expansion of the embargo on the supply of dual-use goods and technologies, a ban on the export of certain other goods, and an expansion of the list of personal restrictions, which included another 200 people and organizations.
The Permanent Mission of Russia to the EU called the measures illegitimate. They said that the purpose of the restrictions is to put pressure on a sovereign state, which is contrary to the norms of international financial and trade relations.